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Mark Daniell, QMI Agency

Aug 15, 2014

, Last Updated: 12:28 PM ET

LOS ANGELES - Eva Green is right, “Boobs have never killed anyone.” But her Ava Lord character poster for Sin City: A Dame to Kill For was deemed too graphic by the MPAA (apparently someone with a magnifying glass spotted a nipple). A television ad was also axed by ABC for being too racy.

The poster (left) that was rejected by the MPAA for visible 'curve of under breast' was modified to be less risque (right).

Green’s fierce femme fatale bares all in the black-and-white sequel, but the actress was convinced by co-directors Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller that the nudity in the film would be handled tastefully.

“I trusted Robert,” she says at a Beverly Hills hotel. “He came to my trailer and swore to me that I would look amazing with the right lighting and shadows. You always feel quite vulnerable when you are naked on a set; you feel quite silly actually and then the green screen is around you and you’re wearing a tiny thong. It’s not that sexy. So you trust their vision and it looks stunning; it’s art. It’s not vulgar, it’s not indecent; it’s beautiful, I think.”

Jessica Alba, whose stripper character Nancy Callahan is nude throughout Miller’s Sin City graphic novels, wouldn’t do any nudity, but that allowed her to create something new, Rodriguez says.

“I knew Jessica wouldn’t do topless ... but I’m always trying to work with her. She’s in my Machete movies; my Spy Kids movies; I’m trying to use her in every franchise I have.”

The choice, he says, became selecting someone who would agree to be nude, or use Jessica.

“There wasn’t any nudity in the first one it was all in the mind so we could suggest a lot with costume and attitude.”

And Alba says that she was still able to exude sexiness — even with her clothes on.

“In the first film I was 21,” she says. “I was so young and I wasn’t comfortable on the stage and dancing. It was all kind of terrifying to me. In this one, I felt more confident and comfortable in my own skin.”